In this weeks craft activity we celebrated autumn with the creation of these amazing autumn crowns. This is also a great activity for an outdoor children’s party. It certainly doesn’t have to be an autumn only activity, imagine how beautiful a crown of spring flowers would be!

What you need:

• Cereal boxes cut into strips
• Wide double sided tape
• Scizzors
• Heavy duty stapler
• All sorts of leaves, pods, berries and other autumn treasures!

How to:

• Measure cardboard strip around your head leaving a couple of centimetres for the join.
• Stick a strip of double sided tape along the length of the carboard srtip but do not remove backing.
• Turn cardboard strip over and start stapling leaves on. It is really effective if you start with the largest leaves in the centre and then work outwards with smaller ones.
• When you have covered the entire side of the cardboard, turn it over and carefully remove the backing off the tape.
• Now you can stick more leaves onto the tape so that you end up completely covering the cardboard.
• You can keep decorating with more leaves, berries or seed pods.
• Finally, join together with a few staples.

 These crowns also make great head pieces for outdoor games and imaginary adventures!